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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
colleague .
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Examples
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You will see with whom and what you are colleagued.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 21 October 1781 1973
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Two brave chiefs, one a kinsman of my own, and the other his friend, are now colleagued to free him.
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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If these men could be affected by the interest of their country, and as they had the power to befriend her, they would not have colleagued with her enemies.
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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Two brave chiefs, one a kinsman of my own, and the other his friend, are now colleagued to free him.
The Scottish Chiefs Jane Porter 1813
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Thus they colleagued with him, and got yet more and more into him, and so, like horse leeches, they drew away that little that his father had given him, and brought him quickly down, almost to dwell next door to the beggar.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658
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This dialogue set our adventurer’s rum-bewildered brains in a complete ferment, for by it he well knew some new and most probably atrocious act of turpitude was resolved upon by Foxley; and the state of Rashleigh’s sensorium conjured up the most appalling visions of demons, furies and disembodied spirits colleagued to punish his wicked and guilty companions as well as to lavish torments upon himself for being even their unwilling associate.
Ralph Rashleigh 2004
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But what likelihood can there be that I should have colleagued with a decrepit buffoon, with whom I never had an instant’s communication, save once at an Easter feast, when I whistled a hornpipe, as he danced on a trencher to amuse the company?”
Peveril of the Peak 1822
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And when Lord Ruthven advised him to do so, "No, my lord," said he, "we must not spread a snare under our country, and as they had the power to befriend her, they would not have colleagued with her enemies.
The Scottish Chiefs Jane Porter 1813
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But what likelihood can there be that I should have colleagued with a decrepit buffoon, with whom I never had an instant's communication, save once at an Easter feast, when I whistled a hornpipe, as he danced on a trencher to amuse the company? "
Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801
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